PLOT TO REMOVE OKOROCHA CONFIRMED BY THE PRESIDENCY.

The attention of All Progressive Ground Alliance has been drawn to areckless comment credited to the Special Adviser to the President of the Federal Government of Nigeria on Political Matters calling for the impeachment of the duly elected governor of Imo State, Owelle Rochas Anayo Okorocha.

Finally, the statement credited to Ikedi Ohakim and others that they have the backing of the Presidency to remove Governor Okorocha has been further strengthened by Ahmed Gulak’s widely reported statement.

It should also be noted that the State PDP Chairman had earlier revealed that Ikedi Ohakim and others declared that they contributed N25 billion to the PDP for the Presidential campaign. The PDP official also boasted to have used their connections within the presidency to influence the police to assist the former chairmen to invade and take over the LGA’s by force.

Imolites hereby call on President Goodluck Jonathan to call Ahmed Gulak to order and sanction him for bringing the office of President into disrepute if indeed he is not playing out a script authored within the presidency.

For the avoidance of doubt, the former local government chairmen had sought but failed to get term elongation through a high court in Imo State. The process was purely a judicial matter. Governor Okorocha had in obedience to a court order recalled the chairmen before their terms expired on August 8, 2012. As a high government official Ahmed Gulak should guard his comments and utterances.

72 Responses to "PLOT TO REMOVE OKOROCHA CONFIRMED BY THE PRESIDENCY."

This whole thing is becoming childish. Should APGA be responding to every single wind-up thrown by mischief makers within Ohakim’s camp? The answer is No. Ohakim and PDP are a disgraced, corrupt looters, who were thrown out of Imo state by the good people of imo state…….If they have what it takes to impeach Rochas let them bring it on and stop making fools of themselves.

If u dont know what to say u cloose ur everything ok, if u remove him whom wil u put there ur father or ur mother, is like u are nt son d soil I mean having igbo blood, no mather I hv nt benifeted fm hm b/4 but his is stil ok by me ok.

Well watever Rochas is getting now serves him right….First if he has handed over Ohakim to be probed for destroying imo state am sure he will be cooling off now in kirikiri and all these wouldnt come up,but he was wasting our fund building guest house for the past governors,Ohakim inclusive,so wat do u expect….enemy u fail to deal with today will destroy u tomorrow,when u dine with devil u must use long spoon….Obviously Jonathan has no right watsoever to impose anybody on imolites,let him face wat is facing him…and i believe the ogogoro is now influencing his utterances…easier said than done,we the imolites are waiting and watching

Why wil he be remove? Tel me l .G .A. Which goverment are they under her control, and dose hv right to remove him. And tel me his reasons to do so plz, u should konw that P.D.P HAS come, plz owelle be careful they want to find mistake from u.

Every governor/government irrespective of party affiliation should respect court orders. That’s what the constitution says. Rochas irrespective of his popularity with the people should respect court order and reinstate those elected local govt chairmen. No one is above the rule of the land.

The Statement issued by the chairman of APGA alleging plot to impeach the peoples Governor is verissimilitude of response given to ignorable frivolity which lends credence to insinuations of loquasity. It would have been a different kettle of fish if the threat came from members of Imo State House of Assembly in whose hands the impichment of an elected Governor lies with enough raison d’ etre. If I were APGA, I should have treated those pronouncements from the presidential Aid as balderdash. Calling for impeachment of Governor Owelle Rochas Okorocha is like calling for the impeachment of president Goodluck Ebele Jonathan. At least those who occupy sensitive offices are expected to know the constitutional requirements for impeaching an elected Governor or President. We have come a long way. Imo State is not Bayelsa or even Anambra states where the ALAMs and OBIs manners of impeachments succeeded. That was in diebus illis! The Government of Imo state should not be distracted. imo people had never had it so good.

@ “The Statement issued by the chairman of APGA alleging plot to impeach the peoples Governor is verissimilitude of response given to ignorable frivolity which lends credence to insinuations of loquasity.”

President GEJ please call this Gulak to order. we are not related to him and can never be. we do not share anything in common with him and his Boko haram brothers so he should never comment on Imo state and the entire south east again. If he is interested in IMO affairs, then he should jump inside presidential Jet and come down to Imo state for face to face talk with us. we fought PDP during the election and will fight PDP again anyday anytime as we have not forgotten the 12 years hardship and intimidation PDP melted on Imo people. Stupid Malam from a bush community talking about educated people. Afoanu awusa, aturu awusa

Can we all see how it feels to remove democratically elected representatives of the electorate undemocratically? If the president has no right or constitutional powers to remove the governor undemocratically, why should we support any governor to remove LGA chairmen and councillors under any guise? Do unto others as you want done to you. We are watching!

@ festus, irrespective of party affiliation court must be respected. Let’s say ohakim rigged the election which we all knew was won by rochas, and rochas went to court to restore his victory. Then the fed govt refused to respect Court order. Won’t we be complaining and calling on the fed govt to respect court order. I don’t believe in injustice, since these local govt chairmen went to govt, won their case. The state govt should restore their court victory. That is constitutional, no matter how we spin it to favor our argument the fact remain they won in court n court orders should be respected to the letter

As a true son of Imo, i like Rochas. I do not stay in Imo for the time being, but during some of the visits i made like 3 times between May and July this year, i was clearly impressed especially when justapoxed with the same duration during the ignoble reign of Ohakim. But i have a few honestbcomments to make and advise to the man whom i worked for in 1998 – 99 to become governor but fate had a different idea.

I have looked at some of the criticisms leveled by the critics, most of whom are rather arm chair critics with no idea of how to make a difference. I believe His Excellency will be better rated if he considers his policy utterances well before publicly pronouncing them. His intentions are so good, and like the Governor Umu Okorobia, we called him then, he will wish every imolite enjoys to the fullest. But no government in Nigeria can in 4 years wipe away poverty that has taken 50 years of corruption and deprivation to build.

To this end, let Owelle only publicly pronounce on policies which he has counted the cost of and deviced how to fund the same. If in every year, he achieves just some in order of priority, he can take up others the next year. I am from Owerri zone, Mbieri to be presise, but i do not really care where the governor comes from as long as he delivers good gorvernance and genuinely won his election. I dont mind a second term for him as long as he is achieving good for imo people. All those fighting him have become professional govenment beneficiaries at the expence of the people. Thus they will fight to keep the milk cow lactating.

Some examples are the no school fees issue in primary and secondary schools. This was pronounced without due consultation and thus starte with challenges. Most teachers claim their usual chalk, biros, school maintenance (i stand to be corrected though) were usually provided from the school token fee account. As soon as the governor stop the fees, it created problems and more pressure on the schools.

Another is the Imo State University free education. This is a wonderful idea but can he realise it? If he had done a good home work on it before going to press, maybe he could have made it with effect from a future date. Or started with final year students or first year students so it runs with his administration. Having gone to press first, he is faced with the challenge of how to fund such grand and worthy policy. The school is still trying to work it out till date. There are other ones i may no mention here. He means well for imo, i have no doubt about it but its only God who can achieve all things by his Words. For man, if you dont plan well, you inexonorably have commenced execution of a plan to fail.

ON Roads, he has done so well but too many issues. Road projects are on going evey where. Does the state have all the money to complete all same time? Or will he put the state in perpetual indebtedness to the Z and D banks? Now most of the roads remain at the stage of red mud every where. This is still better than Ohakim spurious IRROMA but then, it gives criticts a good subject to talk about. They now say its all a game to play to gallery. I do not believe it is, but then if Rochas should concentrate on a few roads on a even and equitable spread to local government areas every year, he can deliver better. The contractors are complaining that Their jobs are not supperviced on time to approve their payment thus increasing hardship and the interest on the loans which they commenced with. Now again i ask, if He took on a few roads at a time, he would be able to inspect them all. Otherwise find someone else you can trust to do it. There are still honest people ready to serve imo who are not party card bearers.

GOV? OKOROOCHA needs an efficient Budget and Economic planner in the calibre of Ben Akabueze the man behind the Lagos success in project planning and budgeting. He was never and is still not a card carrying member of the ACN? There people like him in Imo. More than enough of them.

Finally to the Blogger, you are doing a great job with the Imo blog. But i do not expect you to always join issues with the commentators in defence of any party in the Imo debacle. Play an unpire so that people will not completly brand the blog a machinery for the establishment only.

Absolutely rubbish!! Gov Rochas is not d only gov d@ fails 2 heed court orders. Even in Edo state where d court orders gov Oshiomole 2 conduct local govt election thereby dissolvin d caretaker committee he waz using has not been obeyed by him. In a nutshell d shuld leave Rochas alone 2 govern us in peace cos he’s not the only one d@ haz not heeded 2 court orderz.

I’m only waiting to hear GEJ. By the way, who elected the LG Chairmen? They were SELECTED by Ohakim, and we don’t need them anymore. We needed elected representatives not them. Okorocha is IMMOVEABLE. May be GEJ wants IMO to make his govt ungovernable?

It is a pre-emptive mode of attack to neutralize his growing popularity nationwide.
The way and manner the name of Owelle Rochas keeps popping up all around the country,whenever discussions or permutations for the Presidency in 2015 are made,is at the heart of the whole matter. The issue of this insignificant local government chairmen who are useless in the political equations of PDP,as they dont weld any real power in the present political calculus is merely a smokescreen and a convinient excuse to go after Rochas.
That is what this attack means.GEJ’s foot soldiers like Gulak have opened the floodgate of attacks,and soon you would see all manner of sycophants joining the train.
Thats PDP for you !

If Jonathan and his fellow looters are planning to remove Gov. Rochas who will they replace him with in Imo State. This is not Bayalsa where his wife is a permanent secretary. Imo ppl voted for Rochas, he was not hand picked. I hope Imo ppl will fight the fight, let them go to Yoruba and say all these nonsense. Igbos allowed themselves to be used. Shame on the arrend boys of Jonathan. By the way what has Jonathan done to Igbo ppl, now an Ijaw man is using them.

But who is this Gulak thing, sorry, man? Never heard of it, sorry, him before. Let him go and start impeachment process against his northern governors under whose watch Boko Haram sacked Igbos doing business in the north and made them remain paupers today in the south.
Okorocha never breached any court rulings in all his dealings with those PDP ex/Chairmen. They were sacked by Okorocha because Ohakim abused court proceedures and conducted the mockerey of elections through which he selected all of them without exception. And now their two years they asked the court to grant them had since expired. When he was governor, Ohakim was lavishing Imo states money on Emirs, thinking that power resided outside Imo state voters. A political novice Ohakim was indeed. Please leave Okorocha alone.

Let me finish. I am now in Rochas Okorocha’s smarket stall. Please Mr. Governor, ensure that the road projects you embarked upon in Imo state, especially those in the principal commercial nerves of the state like Owereri, Orlu and Okigwe are completed without further delay. In some of these comercial centres, whole streets and roads have remained blocked getting close to a year now. Stiffling commercial activities in these cities in the name of closing whole roads due to seemingly endless construction jobs is counterproductive. Would government want inhabitants of these cities completely migrate to other states due to obstruction of movement and economic activies before the roads are completed? Please Mr. Okorocha, let the contractors quicken up in opening those roads.

THE FACT remains that all those clamouring for L G A autonomy cannot point at one reasonable project completed in their locality, they know that monies sent to LGs are merely shared and never used judiciously, they are part of the corrupt era IMO people fazed out. LONG LIVE ANAYO ROCHAS OKOROCHA

Who is this Alhaji Ahmed Gulak? What moral authority and on what moral, political ground does he stand to make such statement? An aboki, having the effrontery, audacity, temerity to make such call. I wonder how our own will be used to destroy our own. Can an easterner, even in higher political position make similar statement for a northern governor

ROCHAS is a revolution, a reversal from a corrupt tradition, he should therefore expect all manner of opposition from those who hate the industrious Igbo person, the north is currently administering a bitter pill to the Fed gov for sure the gov never knew such was possible, but here we are loosing lives and property. Little issues can open the doors for monstrous effects

To me, he is one of the best Governors in nigeria, so GEJ and his cabinets that have a develish opinion should please allow the rain to beat us first, because i have not seen any sign of bad rainfall in imo state, or are u intending becoming the next Governor? Tell me now so that i can be part of u.

For more than thirty years these criminals have been taking Imo state government as business.Now these Local Chairman have just fighting to pay there God Fathers back the money the used to sponsor there election campaign from Imo state treasury. But thunder from God struck them on there way. OKOROCHA GO ON GOD WILL SEE U THROUGH.

Admin Note,
This KEN above is not the KEN that made the last two COMMENTS before CHETA-s comment. The KEN that made the last two comments before CHETA-s comment cannot reference anybody or group with – what a bunch of clowns.

This is the Ken that called them clowns…….. I saw an items that I felt Imolites will be interested in judging by the support and affection that most people feel for Rochas. I asked the admin, if this is not something they should pick up and they non-chalantly replied, they have no space for such balderash. Then 24 hours later, I notice the same balderash with imolites venting the same anger and venom towards Gulak as i had seen in the earlier blog.

I had no option but to label them clowns… one minute, you have no space or interest in an article. The next, you are interested.

IMO WILL TURN TO DESERT IF ANY ATTEMPT TO HINDER THE MANDATE OF GOOD PEOPLE OF IMO STATE.AND IT WILL ESCALATE TO NATION.FED GOVERNMENT HAS NO LEGITIMATE RIGHT OVER A POLITICAL ELECTED GOVERNOR.GOV REMAIN ANSWERABLE TO THE MANDATE OF THE PEOPLE THAT ELECTED HIM UNDER HIS JURIDICTION. IT HAPPENED IN LAGOS STATE, YOU HEARD HOW LAGOS PEOPLE TREATED THE FED THEN?CASE STUDY

Interesting that Joi John / Admin would disregard her impartiality and jump down the throat of any commenters who questions the achievements of Rochas. Also, interesting that she would cite Boko Haram. I AM NEITHER A PDP OR APGA SUPPORTER. I SUPPORT NO POLITICIAN BECAUSE THERE IS NOT ONE HONEST POLITICIAN ANYWHERE IN THE WORLD.

However, let me ask Joi John 2 questions. Are you happy that Imo state has practically ground to a halt because the administration is spending too much time in court over one case or another instead of governing the state? Second and most important, whet is the administration doing to safeguard those people who have run away from the evils of Boko Haram as you rightly pointed out, only to be faced by the evils of kidnapping and killings daily in Imo state.

She probably will not answer these questions because she will see the answers as being critical of imo state administration.

It is all very well defending an administration aor a political party. However, let us all be honest about matters and start calling a spade a spade.

The bloggist in one of her write ups commented that Imo has ground to halt…

In some areas, Imo state has nicknamed the Somalia of Nigeria because of the violence and kidnapping.

So madam bloggist, be objective in your write ups, be impartial, stop allowing party political emotions to cloud your judgements.

If only you could read todays news papers in Uk, you will see the amount of criticism directed at the Uk prime minister both from his supporters and non supporters… all because they disagree with his style of management and cabinet reshuffle.

That is the difference. when they see something wrong, they say regardless of who is at the helm, they do not allow party politicical emotions get in their way.

Pls Mr APGA faction chairman, where did gulak make such statement? Okorocha it’s high time u stop all these ur propaganda and get 2 work. Mark it Okorocha will be d first governor to go to jail he has stolen enough

His problem apart from lack of focus is the visionless syncophants that surround him. One lesson I learnt is than not all election candidates who are very popular among the masses will make a good leader. The masses made a huge mistake in voting a trickster who uses philanthropy to deceive people to power. I’m sure that they are regretting. They should vote for leaders who will generate opportunities and not “leaders” who promise manna to rain from heaven.

i want us to know that the problem of nigeria is not Imo State or how to inpeach the GOVERNOR his excellency the President of Nigeria know that the problem we, are facing is not inpeachment and am so sure he cat do such

‎@ Negro I’m neither a psycophant nor a fan of one. I must say it, the way it is. Owelle is not the best man 4 d job. He has displayd gross incompetence, lack of vision, dishonesty nd inconsistencies that can take Imo back 16 to 20yrs back.